Tech & Science

An American writer hasn’t won the Nobel Prize for literature since 1993, when the Swedish Academy bestowed the honor on Toni Morrison. Here's a list of American writers most likely to win the award, which cannot be given posthumously and encompasses an entire body of work.

The ALMA system of antennas has high-resolution capabilities that produced an image of a star with planet-forming rings roughly 450 light-years from the Earth, like “a penny as seen from more than 110 kilometers away.”